6th Battalion
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Frederick Rowe (SN 1873) born in Ballarat, was a 22 year old railway clerk when he enlisted in Dandenong on January 18th 1915. He embarked aboard the Wiltshire on April 13th and sailed first to Egypt and then to Gallipoli late in May 1915. He served for two months at Gallipoli with the 6th Infantry Battalion until illness forced his evacuation. He returned in August as Batman for Major-General Elliston. In August 1916 he was moved to England prior to returning to Australia aboard the New Zealand Hospital Ship Marama. He disembarked at Melbourne on October 1916 and was discharged on November 24th ‘medically unfit, shell shock’.
